
40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)
11/23/1996
67 minutes
6
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."
Details
Budget
$0
Rating
6/10 (5 votes)
Status
Released
Production Companies
BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions